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n William Thomson remembered here by a fellow Cambridge undergraduate. (Pencil portrait of William Thomson at 16 by Elizabeth Thomson.
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Annie Tenkin, after their first meeting, recalled Thomson's "splendid buoyancy and radiance." (Photograph by David King, from King, 1925.)
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, Thomson's ingenious mathematical analogy between the geometry of electric forces and the flow of heat was the first step in turning Faraday's acute insights into the modern theory of electromagnetism. (Photograph from Lewis and Garnett, 1884.)
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n Peter Guthrie Tait, remembered in an obituary notice by Kelvin. (1870 photograph, from Knott, 191 1.)
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, Hugh Blackburn, Tames Thomson, Hermann van Helmholtz, and an unknown child and man discussing the physics of bird flight at Blackburn's house on the Moidart Peninsula. (Watercolor by Jemima Blackburn, September 1871.
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remembering Lord Kelvin. In 1900 they were photographed in Rayleigh's laboratory at Terling, Essex.
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